Shane Murnaghan
Senior Software Engineer at Forward Financing
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolShane Murnaghan is a Senior Software Engineer based in Edmonton with over a decade of hands-on experience building web applications and technical teams across startups, finance, and higher education. He brings deep Ruby on Rails expertise and a track record of shipping reliable production systems at companies like Checkr, Clio, ATB Financial, and the University of Alberta. Comfortable working as both an individual contributor and technical lead, Shane has balanced consulting projects with long-term roles, giving him a pragmatic view of architecture, maintainability, and delivery. He’s adept at translating domain complexity—legal tech, background checks, and financial systems—into pragmatic engineering solutions. Colleagues rely on him for steady execution and mentorship, and his career shows a pattern of returning to institutions (University of Alberta) to drive sustained improvements. Outside obvious code contributions, Shane’s mix of consulting and in-house experience suggests strong client-facing instincts and an ability to adapt tooling to varied organizational needs.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Alberta
Github Skills (45)
mvc10
rails10
ruby10
digitization10
html10
extensible10
activerecord10
lda9
discovery9
ruby-application9
ruby-on-rails9
react9
asset-management9
fedora8
aio8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
murny/pushmi_pullyu
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:112 pushes, 40 branches, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
rubyswiftmacoshomebrewruby-application
murny/discovery
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
Discovery is the University of Alberta Libraries' catalogue interface, built using Blacklight: http://projectblacklight.org/
Contributions:84 pushes, 46 branches in 4 months
catalogueldauniversity-of-albertadiscoveryblacklight
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